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Overview of the events of 1919 in science
The year 1919 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy [ edit ] Chemistry [ edit ] History of science [ edit ] Mathematics [ edit ] Medicine [ edit ] Physics [ edit ] Psychology [ edit ] Technology [ edit ] First crossings of the Atlantic Ocean by air.
May 8–27 – United States Navy Curtiss flying boat NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read makes the first transatlantic flight , from Naval Air Station Rockaway to Lisbon via Newfoundland and the Azores .
June 14–15 – A Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown makes the first nonstop transatlantic flight , from St. John's, Newfoundland , to Clifden , Ireland.
July 2–6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune , Scotland , to Mineola, New York .
May 29 – Charles Strite files a United States patent for the electric pop-up bread toaster .[10]
October 17 – Dr. Frank Conrad begins broadcasting from 8XK in Pittsburgh (United States).
Lee De Forest files his first United States patent for the Phonofilm sound-on-film process.United States firearms designer John Browning finalizes the design of the M1919 Browning machine gun .
United States firearms designer John T. Thompson finalizes the design of the Thompson submachine gun .
A United States patent for the self-folding shirt collar is obtained by the Phillips-Jones Corporation . January 23 – Hans Hass (died 2013 ), Austrian zoologist and oceanographer.[11]
February 25 – Karl H. Pribram (died 2015 ), Austrian-American neuroscientist.
April 1 – Joseph Murray (died 2012 ), American Nobel Prize -winning transplant surgeon.
June 22 – Henri Tajfel (died 1982 ), Polish -born social psychologist .
July 26 – James Lovelock (died 2022 ), English environmentalist and futurologist .
August 12 – Margaret Burbidge , born Eleanor Margaret Peachey (died 2020 ), English-born American astronomer .
August 30 – Maurice Hilleman (died 2005 ), American vaccinologist .[12]
September 6 – Wilson Greatbatch (died 2011 ), American biomedical engineer .
September 21 – Mario Bunge (died 2020 ), Argentine -born philosopher of science.
November 10 – Mikhail Kalashnikov (died 2013), Russian small arms designer.
December 8 – Kateryna Yushchenko (died 2001 ), Ukrainian computer scientist and academic.[13] January 15 – Rosa Luxemburg (born 1871 ), Polish Marxist theorist , philosopher , economist , anti-war activist , and revolutionary socialist .
February 19 – Frederick DuCane Godman (born 1834 ), English lepidopterist , entomologist and ornithologist .
April 4 – Sir William Crookes (born 1832 ), English chemist and physicist .
April 8 – Loránd Eötvös (born 1848 ), Hungarian physicist.
April 17 – Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (born 1827 ), German obstetrician .
May 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson (born 1848), American inventor.
c. June 1 – Caroline Still Anderson (born 1848), African American physician, educator and activist.
June 30 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (born 1842 ), English Nobel Prize -winning physicist.
July 15 – Emil Fischer (born 1852 ), German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (suicide ).
July 21 – Gustaf Retzius (born 1842 ), Swedish anatomist .
August 8 – Ernst Haeckel (born 1834 ), German zoologist .
August 23 – Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (born 1834), English chemist.
November 23 – Henry Gantt (born 1861 ), American project engineer .
December 16 – Julia Lermontova (born 1846 ), Russian chemist.
December 29 – Sir William Osler (born 1849 ), Canadian-born physician . References [ edit ]
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